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Mark Beyer s 'Amy and Jordan' was one of the great underground comic strips of the late 80s and early 90s the Candide-on-PCP misadventures of a seemingly accursed New York City couple. Douglas Wolk, The New York Times Book Review
"Almost childlike in its energy and lack of story logic, this is a charming explosion of grotesque comedic misfortune, exactly as the title promises ... Beyer s calamitous comedy has aged well, its geometric, densely patterned imagery recalling fine art as much as comics and still packing a punch among today s alternative cartoonists. Publishers Weekly, PW Picks
"Exquisitely, gleefully hopeless." The A. V. Club
"I couldn t get enough of their misery: I finished it in one sitting and flipped back to the beginning. The Paris Review Daily Blog
"Mark Beyer s Agony is a highlight of the 80s art comics movement ... Now available in a new edition as the first release of the New York Review Comics line, the abstract, absurd, and bleakly funny comic book returns, and it s just as oddly beautiful and relevant as ever. ... Throughout Agony, Beyer s artwork is odd, alienating, and remarkably effective. A self-taught artist whose work could easily be classified as outsider, raw, brut, or naïve art, Beyer strikes a balance between simple, even childlike figure-work supported by a very dynamic and complex design." Comics Alliance
"Gorgeously madcap and brutally inspiring. Kirkus Reviews
Agony by Mark Beyer is an otherworldly pocket-sized jewel that s bound to be rediscovered. Blouin Artinfo
Beyer s work is universal at its heart ... One of the masters of the form. Publishers Weekly
Mark Beyer s are some of my favorite comics of all time, and surely the most perfectly realized vision of urban despair ever to hit the comic page. A must for any fan of bleakness and misery." Daniel Clowes
He s one of the flukiest geniuses in comics." L.A. Weekly
Exquisite poems of urban despair, dreamy and nightmarish. Chip Kidd
Perhaps the ultimate urban nightmare comic ... Mark Beyer [is] not only an extremely funny cartoonist, but one of the most progressive as well. Time
A childhood hell palpitating with adult neuroses. The Village Voice
Beyer s seminal strip is a terrifying New York of the mind. Dash Shaw
I hope Mark Beyer s work will find a place in the canon ... A treasure of the comics medium. The Millions
A complete and total original. Kaz
[A]n exemplar of [the] eighties alternative' comics movement. ... Agony is a book filled with pain, misery, brutality, and hopelessness, but our unexpected laughter reminds us that we must carry on, regardless. Ivan Brunetti, The Paris Review Daily
